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The
snowstorm
that
came
at
the
end
of
January
blocked
the
passes
through
the
Rocky
Mountains
,
raising
white
walls
thirty
feet
high
across
the
main
-
line
track
of
Taggart
Transcontinental
.
The
men
who
attempted
to
clear
the
track
,
gave
up
within
the
first
few
hours
:
the
rotary
plows
broke
down
,
one
after
another
.
The
plows
had
been
kept
in
precarious
repair
for
two
years
past
the
span
of
their
usefulness
.
The
new
plows
had
not
been
delivered
;
the
manufacturer
had
quit
,
unable
to
obtain
the
steel
he
needed
from
Orren
Boyle
.
Three
westbound
trains
were
trapped
on
the
sidings
of
Winston
Station
,
high
in
the
Rockies
,
where
the
main
line
of
Taggart
Transcontinental
cut
across
the
northwest
corner
of
Colorado
.
For
five
days
,
they
remained
beyond
the
reach
of
help
.
Trains
could
not
approach
them
through
the
storm
.
The
last
of
the
trucks
made
by
Lawrence
Hammond
broke
down
on
the
frozen
grades
of
the
mountain
highways
.
The
best
of
the
airplanes
once
made
by
Dwight
Sanders
were
sent
out
,
but
never
reached
Winston
Station
;
they
were
worn
past
the
stage
of
fighting
a
storm
.
Through
the
driving
mesh
of
snow
,
the
passengers
trapped
aboard
the
trains
looked
out
at
the
lights
of
Winston
’
s
shanties
.
The
lights
died
in
the
night
of
the
second
day
.
By
the
evening
of
the
third
,
the
lights
,
the
heat
and
the
food
had
given
out
aboard
the
trains
.
In
the
brief
lulls
of
the
storm
,
when
the
white
mesh
vanished
and
left
behind
it
the
stillness
of
a
black
void
merging
a
lightless
earth
with
a
starless
sky
—
the
passengers
could
see
,
many
miles
away
to
the
south
,
a
small
tongue
of
flame
twisting
in
the
wind
.
It
was
Wyatt
’
s
Torch
.
By
the
morning
of
the
sixth
day
,
when
the
trains
were
able
to
move
and
proceeded
down
the
slopes
of
Utah
,
of
Nevada
,
of
California
,
the
trainmen
observed
the
smokeless
stacks
and
the
closed
doors
of
small
trackside
factories
,
which
had
not
been
closed
on
their
last
run
.
"
Storms
are
an
act
of
God
,
"
wrote
Bertram
Scudder
,
"
and
nobody
can
be
held
socially
responsible
for
the
weather
.
"
The
rations
of
coal
,
established
by
Wesley
Mouch
,
permitted
the
heating
of
homes
for
three
hours
a
day
.
There
was
no
wood
to
burn
,
no
metal
to
make
new
stoves
,
no
tools
to
pierce
the
walls
of
the
houses
for
new
installations
.
In
makeshift
contraptions
of
bricks
and
oil
cans
,
professors
were
burning
the
books
of
their
libraries
,
and
fruit
growers
were
burning
the
trees
of
their
orchards
.
"
Privations
strengthen
a
people
’
s
spirit
,
"
wrote
Bertram
Scudder
,
"
and
forge
the
fine
steel
of
social
discipline
.
Sacrifice
is
the
cement
which
unites
human
bricks
into
the
great
edifice
of
society
.
"
"
The
nation
which
had
once
held
the
creed
that
greatness
is
achieved
by
production
,
is
now
told
that
it
is
achieved
by
squalor
,
"
said
Francisco
d
’
Anconia
in
a
press
interview
.
But
this
was
not
printed
.
The
only
business
boom
,
that
winter
,
came
to
the
amusement
industry
.
